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As reported in this past Saturday's Daily News Record -- a new Starbucks location will be constructed at the Intersection of Port Republic Road and Hunters Road, on a currently vacant lot. A variety of additional details and thoughts....

The new Starbucks location is intended to open in Spring 2018 and will have a drive thru!

This new location will be only 1,250 feet from the existing Starbucks location on the other side of I-81 at James Madison Square. Starbucks indicates that the existing store will remain open.

Access to Starbucks will be off of Hunters Road -- not Port Republic Road. This is good -- to not have another entrance/exit onto Port Republic Road in this busy area -- but I'm still not sure how folks are going to leave Starbucks (from Hunters Road) and turn left (across two lanes of traffic) to get onto Port Republic Road heading back towards I-81 and JMU. Many (most?) times of day, it is very difficult to make this left turn with two lanes of traffic in each direction.